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On March 29, 2009, <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/news/local/story/4864328/">an aggrieved ex-husband went looking for his former wife</a> at the nursing home where she worked.

Robert Stewart sprayed bullets inside Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/eight-dead-in-carthage-nursing-home-shooting/4837676/">killing Pinelake residents</a> Tessie Garner, 75; Lillian Dunn, 89; Jesse Musser, 88; Bessie Hedrick, 78; John Goldston, 78; Margaret Johnson, 89; Louise De Kler, 98; and nurse Jerry Avant Jr., 39.

The rampage ended when 25-year-old Carthage Police Officer Justin Garner traded gunfire with Stewart in a hallway, wounding him.

Cpl. Justin Garner says he was just doing his job the morning he brought down an alleged gunman during a deadly nursing home rampage last month.

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Two years later, <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/news/local/story/10084903/">Stewart was found guilty of second-degree murder</a> and sentenced to 141 to 179 years in prison.

WRAL.com archive: Carthage nursing home shooting, March 2009